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A Humorous, Fun Mystery.
With the big 4-0 fast approaching, former Chicago bank executive Aggie Mundeen decides to fend off approaching middle-age by enrolling as a graduate student in Aspects of Aging to improve her mind and address the physical by actually joining San Antonio’s Forever Fit Health Club. Her dread of exercise doesn’t even approach the horror of discovering a young woman electrocuted into unconsciousness in the club’s pool. Yet somehow Aggie overcomes her trepidation and joins due to a mix of her need to shape up and her overwhelming curiosity over the “accident,” especially when things turn fatal.

Despite numerous attempts on her life that include poisoning, a shove down stairs, and a chemical bomb, Aggie doggedly investigates the gym and tries to find out who wanted Holly Holmgreen dead. Despite warnings from her friend and possible love interest Detective Sam Vanderhoven, Aggie continues to stick her nose where it isn’t wanted between sporadically attending Aspects of Aging, investigating a possibly homicidal neighbor, and indulging in vegan food tastings and torturous workouts.

Introduced as a side character in West’s Nine Days to Evil, Aggie’s appearance here occurs in a much more light-hearted mystery. However, despite the comedic elements of her investigation, a tragic secret in Aggie’s past adds a deeper element to her character and could be a crucial turning point in her relationship with Sam and his daughter. Although readers may at times marvel at Aggie’s seeming lack of sense of self-preservation, they will find themselves appreciating her resiliency and continual good humor. Overall, Forever Fatal is a mystery that is enjoyable and proves to be an amusing novel that never takes itself too seriously.
-- Cindy Chow, Librarian and Book Reviewer

This book should lead to a series.
In Nancy West's Forever Fatal, Aggie Mundeen, a character introduced in an earlier novel, Nine Days to Evil, is growing concerned about a shortage of men in her life and the consequences of encroaching middle age. Enrolled as a “mature” student at San Antonio’s University of the Holy Trinity, she signs up for Aspects of Aging. She joins Forever Fit Health Club and on her very first day, she helps rescue a member from electrification in the swimming pool. That looks suspicious, but when that member is run down and killed in the club parking garage a day or two later, Aggie knows something is seriously amiss and needs her attention. 

Unfortunately, she seems to alienate every hunk and beauty at the club. Jealousies and conflicts among staff and members emerge. Attempts are made on Aggie’s life. She can’t even attend school peaceably: flippant comments in class estrange her from the professor. When the handsome, smart and caring San Antonio homicide detective tries to keep Aggie from meddling in the ongoing police investigation, Aggie only sees her life spinning out of control.  Even her kind, helpful and loving elderly neighbor has a nasty (to Aggie) little dog and is under some kind of police suspicion. Aggie continues to poke at the investigation and even cooperates a bit with the handsome police detective. The parts start coming together and with a rush, the major issues are very satisfactorily resolved, and the too clever murderer is caught.

In short, Forever Fatal has a creative plot, interesting and effective tension maintenance (few obvious cliffhangers but it is hard to put down) and interesting characters. All together a very fun read.

Although both books are set in contemporary San Antonio and several key characters appear in both Nine Days to Evil and Forever Fatal, this is not really a series (sequel sort-of maybe). Each novel is a stand-alone mystery. In the second novel all the mysteries are solved and major issues settled or explained so that the reader is not left hanging, but some relationships seem likely to have a future. Aggie and the detective are both complex characters with histories that impact them both before and beyond this story.  Aggie's young, pretty and very bright graduate school friend suffered a major trauma but must have an interesting future. Even the elderly neighbor may or may not have a suitor. It will be a disappointment to this reader if this book does not lead to a series.
-- Rollo K. Newsom, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and an editor of Lone Star Sleuths.